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SEATTLE MUNICIPAL NEWS
VOL. 6. NO.
SEATTLE, SATURDAY, JULY I, 1916
Published Weekly $15-G00ag0^
Year
POLICE WILL BEGIN
ENFORCING FIREARM
ORDINANCE MONDAY
Measure Regulating Sale of Revolvers Should Have Been Made
Effective in March.
The small arms ordinance passed
by the City Council over Mayor Gill's
veto last January is not being en.
forced. The ordinance which required
the small arms dealers to pay an annual license fee of $25 and provided
that prospective purchasers should secure a permit from the police department at a cost of 25 cents, shoula
'^ve become effective on Maro.h 28th.
Investigation at the pawn shops this
week showed that one could buy a
firearm without a permit from the police.
The License Department is enforcing its share of the ordinance. The
officials of this department have collected the license fee of $25 from the
dealers in small arms and have seen
to it that firearms are not sold by
dealers who have not taken out a license. The police department, however, has as yet made no attempt to
enforce the provision of the ordinance
requiring purchasers to come to the
police headquarters for a permit.
Dealers Wait for Police.
Dealers in small arms show no hesitancy in selling revolvers or pistols
to anyone even though the buyer is
not provided with a permit from the
police depdartment. They say the police as yet are not enforcing the ordinance, and that they are willing to
ignore the law as long as the police
see no use in enforcing it.
Officials at police headquarters say
permit blanks have not been printed as
yet and that they have not "gotten
around" to enforcing the ordinance.
The first steps towards the enforcement of the law will be made next
Monday, according to Capt. Sullivan,
secretary to the Police Chief.
Former Police Chief Lang and Capt.
Sullivan, secretary to the Police
Chief, appeared before the Public
Safety Committee of the City Council
(Continued on page 4.)
ARRANGING FOR CITY
PLANNING CONFERENCE
League of Washington Municipalities
Will Take Up This Important
Subject Next October.
In accordance with a resolution
adopted by last year's convention of
the League of Washington Municipalities a City Planning Conference has
been organized in connection with
the League's next annual meeting to
be held in Everett Thursday to Saturday, October 12 to 14.
A comprehensive discussion of city
planning in all its aspects will occupy
most of the convention's time, and
probably a legislative bill and model
city planning ordinance will be submitted for the League's endorsement.
The complete convention program will
be published in a later issue of the
News for the benefit of those of our
members who may wish to attend.
Will Meet Annually.
Hereafter the City Planning Conference will meet annually with the
League as one of its permanent sections. The following four groups of
city officialls are now organized as
sections of the League of Washington
Municipalities:
Mayors, Commissioners and Councilman.
City Engineers. City Attorneys.
Treasurers, Controllers and Clerks.
In order to arouse state-wide interest and secure state-wide co-operation
on the legislative side of this important movement an advisory board has
been formed consisting of representative men and women from different
parts of the state. The organizing
committee are:
Col. Howard A. Hanson of Seattle
as President.
Bishop Frederic W. Keator, Tacoma,
as Vice-Presdent.
Dr. Herman A. Brauer, University
of Washington, as Secretary of the
Conference.
FINISH WORK SOON.
Paul B. Phillips, Secretary of the
Civil Service Reclassification Commission, which is re-arranging the positions in the municipal civil service,
announced this week that the work of
the commission would be completed
early in August.
INDEX.
Page
Will Enforce Revolver Ordinance 1
Arrange City Planning Conference 1
Summer Time Idea Doesn't Prosper 1
New Trustee of Municipal League 1
League Offers to Act as Mediator 1
Annual Report of League Committees 2
Report of Address by Maj. Pringle 3
"The Waterfront Situation" 4
"Read The News"— 4
"An Honest Bunch" 4
Our Book Shelf 4
Personnel of Reception Committee 5
How the Councilmen Are Voting 5
Doings of the City Council 5
City Hall Directory— 8
NEWLY-ELECTED MEMBER
OF BOARD OF TRUSTEES
David Whitcomb.
David Whitcomb, who was elected
to the Board of Trustees of the Municipal League at the recent annual election,has been a member of the organization since the fall of 1914._ Mr. Whitcomb is a member of the law firm of
Beebe & Whitcomb and he is also
president of the Arcade Building &
Realty Company, with offices in the
Arcade Building.
SNAGS ABOUND EOR
SUMMER TIME IDEA
Scheme to Set Clocks Ahead an
Hour Doesn't Meet With
Hearty Response Here.
Councilman Hanna's proposition to
form a district of the larger cities and
possibly all of Washington in order to
make possible a successful operation
of his scheme to set the clock ahead
an hour, isn't meeting with a hearty
response. The councilman has written
to officials of several of the cities of
the Northwest but so far he has received but few replies and these have
not been encouraging.
The councilman says he isn't especially enthusiastic about the movement
but that the saving of daylight has
given such satisfaction in other countries and in other cities of the United
States that he was curious to learn
whether there was sentiment in favor
of it here.
Three Cities Have It.
"Detroit, Kansas City and Cleveland all have set their clocks ahead in
order to avail themselves of an extra
hour of daylight at the end of their
day's work, but their experience leads
me to believe that unless an entire district such as a single large state or a
group of states adopts the scheme,
confusion in schedules is very likely
to result," said Councilman Hanna
this week.
"Efforts are being made in both the
Continued on page 4.
LEAGUE OFFERS ITS
SERVICES IN WATERFRONT CONTROVERSY
By Unanimous Vote Adopts Resolution Looking Toward Early
Restoration of Peace.
James A. Haight, chairman of the
League's delegation to the Seattle
Waterfront Conference, introduced
and moved the adoption of the following report at the special meeting
of the Municipal League at the Hotel
Washington Annex Tuesday noon. The
report was adopted by a unanimous
vote, more than a hundred of the
members of the League being present
and voting. The League's delegation
to the Waterfront Conference consisted of James A. Haight, chairman;
George A. Virtue and Raymond G.
Wright. The report follows:
RESOLUTION.
Seattle is first of all a port. Whatever affects her shipping, vitally affects all our people. If our shipping
is active, Seattle is helped. If our
shipping declines Seattle is harmed.
If our shipping is long paralyzed Seattle is dealt a staggering blow.
It is hardly less vital to our welfare that harmony should prevail in
all lines of employment between employee and employer. A widespread
conflict like that now existing along
Seattle's waterfront if long continued
means enormous economic and spiritual loss to our people.
It is our duty as members of the
Municipal League of Seattle to aid
the cessation of this strife and help
the restoration of that harmony in
the shipping industry that should prevail in all industries, always and
everywhere.
We hold these truths to be self
evident:
That industry is created to serve
the interest and welfare of those
who are affected by it, the interested parties being three, the employers, the employees and most
of all the general public;
That nothing but want of integrity or capacity should bar a
man from any employment where
his services are needed;
That both employers and employees are entitled to bargain
collectively concerning wages
and working conditions;
That by the faithful and loyal
application of these principles all
industrial questions and controversies can be justly settled without Strikes or Lock-Outs, and
should be settled;
That it is the right of every
member of the community, bar-
Continued on page 4

SEATTLE MUNICIPAL NEWS
VOL. 6. NO.
SEATTLE, SATURDAY, JULY I, 1916
Published Weekly $15-G00ag0^
Year
POLICE WILL BEGIN
ENFORCING FIREARM
ORDINANCE MONDAY
Measure Regulating Sale of Revolvers Should Have Been Made
Effective in March.
The small arms ordinance passed
by the City Council over Mayor Gill's
veto last January is not being en.
forced. The ordinance which required
the small arms dealers to pay an annual license fee of $25 and provided
that prospective purchasers should secure a permit from the police department at a cost of 25 cents, shoula
'^ve become effective on Maro.h 28th.
Investigation at the pawn shops this
week showed that one could buy a
firearm without a permit from the police.
The License Department is enforcing its share of the ordinance. The
officials of this department have collected the license fee of $25 from the
dealers in small arms and have seen
to it that firearms are not sold by
dealers who have not taken out a license. The police department, however, has as yet made no attempt to
enforce the provision of the ordinance
requiring purchasers to come to the
police headquarters for a permit.
Dealers Wait for Police.
Dealers in small arms show no hesitancy in selling revolvers or pistols
to anyone even though the buyer is
not provided with a permit from the
police depdartment. They say the police as yet are not enforcing the ordinance, and that they are willing to
ignore the law as long as the police
see no use in enforcing it.
Officials at police headquarters say
permit blanks have not been printed as
yet and that they have not "gotten
around" to enforcing the ordinance.
The first steps towards the enforcement of the law will be made next
Monday, according to Capt. Sullivan,
secretary to the Police Chief.
Former Police Chief Lang and Capt.
Sullivan, secretary to the Police
Chief, appeared before the Public
Safety Committee of the City Council
(Continued on page 4.)
ARRANGING FOR CITY
PLANNING CONFERENCE
League of Washington Municipalities
Will Take Up This Important
Subject Next October.
In accordance with a resolution
adopted by last year's convention of
the League of Washington Municipalities a City Planning Conference has
been organized in connection with
the League's next annual meeting to
be held in Everett Thursday to Saturday, October 12 to 14.
A comprehensive discussion of city
planning in all its aspects will occupy
most of the convention's time, and
probably a legislative bill and model
city planning ordinance will be submitted for the League's endorsement.
The complete convention program will
be published in a later issue of the
News for the benefit of those of our
members who may wish to attend.
Will Meet Annually.
Hereafter the City Planning Conference will meet annually with the
League as one of its permanent sections. The following four groups of
city officialls are now organized as
sections of the League of Washington
Municipalities:
Mayors, Commissioners and Councilman.
City Engineers. City Attorneys.
Treasurers, Controllers and Clerks.
In order to arouse state-wide interest and secure state-wide co-operation
on the legislative side of this important movement an advisory board has
been formed consisting of representative men and women from different
parts of the state. The organizing
committee are:
Col. Howard A. Hanson of Seattle
as President.
Bishop Frederic W. Keator, Tacoma,
as Vice-Presdent.
Dr. Herman A. Brauer, University
of Washington, as Secretary of the
Conference.
FINISH WORK SOON.
Paul B. Phillips, Secretary of the
Civil Service Reclassification Commission, which is re-arranging the positions in the municipal civil service,
announced this week that the work of
the commission would be completed
early in August.
INDEX.
Page
Will Enforce Revolver Ordinance 1
Arrange City Planning Conference 1
Summer Time Idea Doesn't Prosper 1
New Trustee of Municipal League 1
League Offers to Act as Mediator 1
Annual Report of League Committees 2
Report of Address by Maj. Pringle 3
"The Waterfront Situation" 4
"Read The News"— 4
"An Honest Bunch" 4
Our Book Shelf 4
Personnel of Reception Committee 5
How the Councilmen Are Voting 5
Doings of the City Council 5
City Hall Directory— 8
NEWLY-ELECTED MEMBER
OF BOARD OF TRUSTEES
David Whitcomb.
David Whitcomb, who was elected
to the Board of Trustees of the Municipal League at the recent annual election,has been a member of the organization since the fall of 1914._ Mr. Whitcomb is a member of the law firm of
Beebe & Whitcomb and he is also
president of the Arcade Building &
Realty Company, with offices in the
Arcade Building.
SNAGS ABOUND EOR
SUMMER TIME IDEA
Scheme to Set Clocks Ahead an
Hour Doesn't Meet With
Hearty Response Here.
Councilman Hanna's proposition to
form a district of the larger cities and
possibly all of Washington in order to
make possible a successful operation
of his scheme to set the clock ahead
an hour, isn't meeting with a hearty
response. The councilman has written
to officials of several of the cities of
the Northwest but so far he has received but few replies and these have
not been encouraging.
The councilman says he isn't especially enthusiastic about the movement
but that the saving of daylight has
given such satisfaction in other countries and in other cities of the United
States that he was curious to learn
whether there was sentiment in favor
of it here.
Three Cities Have It.
"Detroit, Kansas City and Cleveland all have set their clocks ahead in
order to avail themselves of an extra
hour of daylight at the end of their
day's work, but their experience leads
me to believe that unless an entire district such as a single large state or a
group of states adopts the scheme,
confusion in schedules is very likely
to result," said Councilman Hanna
this week.
"Efforts are being made in both the
Continued on page 4.
LEAGUE OFFERS ITS
SERVICES IN WATERFRONT CONTROVERSY
By Unanimous Vote Adopts Resolution Looking Toward Early
Restoration of Peace.
James A. Haight, chairman of the
League's delegation to the Seattle
Waterfront Conference, introduced
and moved the adoption of the following report at the special meeting
of the Municipal League at the Hotel
Washington Annex Tuesday noon. The
report was adopted by a unanimous
vote, more than a hundred of the
members of the League being present
and voting. The League's delegation
to the Waterfront Conference consisted of James A. Haight, chairman;
George A. Virtue and Raymond G.
Wright. The report follows:
RESOLUTION.
Seattle is first of all a port. Whatever affects her shipping, vitally affects all our people. If our shipping
is active, Seattle is helped. If our
shipping declines Seattle is harmed.
If our shipping is long paralyzed Seattle is dealt a staggering blow.
It is hardly less vital to our welfare that harmony should prevail in
all lines of employment between employee and employer. A widespread
conflict like that now existing along
Seattle's waterfront if long continued
means enormous economic and spiritual loss to our people.
It is our duty as members of the
Municipal League of Seattle to aid
the cessation of this strife and help
the restoration of that harmony in
the shipping industry that should prevail in all industries, always and
everywhere.
We hold these truths to be self
evident:
That industry is created to serve
the interest and welfare of those
who are affected by it, the interested parties being three, the employers, the employees and most
of all the general public;
That nothing but want of integrity or capacity should bar a
man from any employment where
his services are needed;
That both employers and employees are entitled to bargain
collectively concerning wages
and working conditions;
That by the faithful and loyal
application of these principles all
industrial questions and controversies can be justly settled without Strikes or Lock-Outs, and
should be settled;
That it is the right of every
member of the community, bar-
Continued on page 4